Maybe I'm wrong about it, but I thought I saw an indifference towards re-signing Sutter earlier in this thread.Looking at their depth chart, he's not particularly replaceable with an internal option. Also, you're not going to get a player with his positive attributes, on the open market and at a cheaper price.

There's not a huge gap in salary between a comparable UFA and the price we'll pay to resign him. Less than a mill per year. maybe even something like 500k. Though it's not like comparable players grow on trees.

Stoll makes 3.25. Chris Kelly makes 3. Both of those were UFA re-ups, right? As an RFA, Sutter should get 2.75 or so. If he gets any more than 3, I'd call it a bad deal (relatively speaking of course).

shmenguin wrote:I don't follow. Without dumoulin and pouliot, we still have depres and harrington waiting to step in. We could also be dangling them as trade bait, and still be ok. We just lose the luxury of having infinity dmen in the system - which, again, is a luxury. Don't get me wrong, from an asset management POV, that trade was a stunning success, but it didn't really address any specific need - aside from getting a good not great 3rd line center.

My point really is that some folks don't seem to realize what our farm system would look like and our potential trade deadline without that trade. I disagree that without that trade we would be ok dangling Harrington and maybe another. Our system would be almost completely empty if we did. Bort and Samuelson types are ok prospects at best but nobody is confusing them for serious trade bait or potential.

You could argue that we should have taken a forward with the trade pick up first round pick or included a forward prospect and not d in the trade. But either way our overall depth would be completely different without that trade. Matta, Despres, Harrington and Bennett. Not much else of real note. Drop one or two of them in a trade, lose Nisky to UFA and our future would look a lot different.

columbia wrote:Maybe I'm wrong about it, but I thought I saw an indifference towards re-signing Sutter earlier in this thread.Looking at their depth chart, he's not particularly replaceable with an internal option. Also, you're not going to get a player with his positive attributes, on the open market and at a cheaper price.

shmenguin wrote:Stoll makes 3.25. Chris Kelly makes 3. Both of those were UFA re-ups, right? As an RFA, Sutter should get 2.75 or so. If he gets any more than 3, I'd call it a bad deal (relatively speaking of course).

Kelly is actually a really good comparable for Sutter...in more ways than one actually. He signed his deal before last season when we were looking at the cap making a big drop due to the impending lockout. $2.75 is where it starts, and it more than likely ends at $13M over 4 years ($3.25 per).

I wish I could find a video to show this, but at the end of every game, it is Sutter who congratulates the goalie last. He is the definition of a coaches son, and something that this team needs. I would hate to lose him.

I think in the end the only real way to look at this is, we had to trade Jordan. He didn't want to be here and really wanted to play with his brother. I can't fault him or blame him for that. What Ray was able to get in return for him concidering he had no real leverage to work with. He could of traded him to another team but that would of been for one year or held onto him to play out that year but that just delayed his arrival in Carolina.

All in all Sutter has been what he has been advertised. A solid 2-way 3rdline center who in a good season can net you 20 goals. If we still had Cooke and Kennedy as our 3rd liners I would feel better going into the playoffs. His cap hit shouldn't break the bank when he lands a new deal and that is welcome on a team who needs to use that open room wisely.

As for the other 2 parts of the deal.. 1st round - 8th overall pick, that in its own would of been enough to close the deal and make you feel like you won. Adding in Dumoulin, "whom I liked even before we got him" made the deal really worth it.

Jordans stats only scratch the surface of what he does in Carolina. He is doing more for his team that his stats tell. He is a quality center for that team but in the end for any team I think he makes to much $. Especially if that $ was being paid by the Penguins it wouldn't of worked out well cap wise for us.

darkstar57 wrote:I would also say the trade now involves maata, if we don't do that trade and get the 8th, we probably take poiliot with the 22nd if he is still there

that is up in the air as who knows if Poiliot would still be available at the 22nd spot if we didn't take him. Oddly enough in that draft Maatta was projected in most mock drafts to go 10-15 (he lasted 22nd) and Poiliot was projected to go 15-20 (was taken 8th).